The GA release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Beagleboard XM, Pandboard, Kirkwood Plugs, Highbank and iMX based hardware platforms. Prebuilt images with kernels that can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and booted without any additional steps or configuration. Additionally, separate kernels and tar balls are provided for those who wish to roll their own images.

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The GA release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Beagleboard xM, Pandboard, Kirkwood Plugs, Highbank and iMX based hardware platforms. Prebuilt images with kernels that can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and booted without any additional steps or configuration. Additionally, separate kernels and tar balls are provided for those who wish to roll their own images.

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These are Fedora 17 Hard and Soft Float Beagleboard XM Images suitable for writing to an SD card and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

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These are Fedora 17 Hard and Soft Float Beagleboard xM Images suitable for writing to an SD card and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

What is included in the GA release?

The GA release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Beagleboard xM, Pandboard, Kirkwood Plugs, Highbank and iMX based hardware platforms. Prebuilt images with kernels that can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and booted without any additional steps or configuration. Additionally, separate kernels and tar balls are provided for those who wish to roll their own images.

Featured Images

Below is a list of currently supplied prebuilt images for the Fedora 17 ARM GA release.

This is a simple tarball of a Fedora 17 root filesystem without any kernels, but with the full XFCE package set installed. Boots to an X login prompt. Requires a separate kernel with frame buffer support.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Trimslice Image suitable for writing to an SD card and placed in the Trimslice's Full Size SD slot (Front slot) and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Trimslice Image suitable for writing to a Trimslice's internal SSD or Hard Drive and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/sdX, and you're ready to go. When using the internal SSD as your installation target, you may need to first boot with the SD image, then copy the SATA image to the SSD. Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Trimslice Image suitable for writing to a Highbank system's SATA or SSD Drive and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/sdX, and you're ready to go. Boots to a "serial" console.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Pandaboard+XFCE Image suitable for writing to an SD card and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a full XFCE environment with login GUI.

This is the Fedora 17 Hard Float Pandaboard Image suitable for writing to an SD card and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

These are Fedora 17 Hard and Soft Float Beagleboard xM Images suitable for writing to an SD card and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

These are the Fedora 17 Hard and Soft Float Versatile Express Images suitable for booting with qemu-system-arm without further modification. Requires an external kernel and initrd with a good qemu-system-arm command line; all of which is provided in the boot directory of the kernel file link (or you can extract the files from the main image). Use the included boot-vexpress script to boot to a serial console.

These are the Fedora 17 Hard and Soft Float Versatile Express + XFCE Images suitable for booting with qemu-system-arm without further modification. Requires an external kernel and initrd with a good qemu-system-arm command line; all of which is provided in the boot directory of the kernel file link (or you can extract the files from the main image). Use the included boot-vexpress+x script to boot to a full XFCE login GUI.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float iMX Image suitable for writing to an SD card and booting on devices like the Efika Smarttop without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console. This kernel does *not* provide a framebuffer or work with X.

This is a Fedora 17 Soft Float Kirkwood Image suitable for writing to an SD card and booting on devices such as the GuruPlug, SheevaPlug, and DreamPlug Computers without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and boot by hand. Boots to a serial console. Suggested u-boot commands:

Known Issues

Yum requires the system time be correct for HTTPS to function. If yum updates are not working check your clock.

Versatile Express images require the kernel parameter 'physmap.enabled=0' be passed to boot correctly. This is included in the boot-vexpress and boot-vexpress+x scripts.

The tar.xz rootfs archives do not preserve SELinux information or file capabilities. If you use these to create your own filesystem image it is recommended that you switch SELinux to use warnings instead of enforcing for first boot, then relabel and reinstall packages that rely upon filesystem capabilities such as glibc-common and ping.

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